Q.Which one of the following countries is larger in area than India?
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India is a vast country, but it is not among the largest few on the planet. When you look at a world map, India sits comfortably in the middle ranks of territorial size — bigger than most of Europe’s individual nations, yet dwarfed by the giants of Asia and the Americas. The question asks you to pick, from a short list, the one country whose land area exceeds India’s. The answer hinges on knowing India’s approximate size and then comparing it with each option.
India’s total area is roughly 3.28 million square kilometres. That places it seventh in the world by area, behind Russia, Canada, the United States, China, Brazil, and Australia. So the moment you see China in the list, you know it qualifies — China is the fourth-largest country on Earth, with an area of about 9.6 million square kilometres, nearly three times India’s size. There is no contest there.
Now look at the other three. Egypt, despite its long Nile valley and vast desert expanses, covers about one million square kilometres — roughly a third of India’s area. France, even including its overseas territories, is far smaller, with a metropolitan area of around 550,000 square kilometres. Iran, the largest of the three challengers, still falls short at about 1.65 million square kilometres, which is only half of India’s territory. None of them comes close. …
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